Comments on: Top 10 Amazing Fighting Styles

By: Almasy

Almasy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:06:40 +0000

I used to watch Flying Guillotine on Channel 17 WPHL Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theatre in Philadelphia. That movie gave me nightmares for basically my entire childhood. There’s an awesome Shaolin movie where the hero fights with a three piece nunchacku, but I can’t remember the name of it. Also, another where the guy trains on a metallaic stature, and he has to catch these kind of pinball things that come out of it every time he hits it right. He also has to eat a lot of eggs as part of his training, and he hates eggs.

By: phil

phil — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:30:54 +0000

Mark Dacascos fight scenes are pretty good espescally in the two main scenes in Brotherhood Of The Wolf, they also have great 5.1 sound editing ….

By: Julina Tatlock

Julina Tatlock — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:14:36 +0000

@tman - It's true, Tony Ya's Muay Thai is incredible. He doesn't use wires or vfx with his fights and Ong Bak is great example. Muay Thai's a effective fighting technique that uses a lot of elbows and knees. This is a good scene from Ong Bak. Sadly, Ong Bak 2 sucked, but if you haven't seen Ong Bak, Netfilx. Now.

By: tman

tman — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:43:17 +0000

Top 10 Amazing Fighting Styles, how can you put up such a list without including “Ong Bak” the film by Tony Ya. One of the best martial arts movies when it comes to fighting styles, without any of the usual special effects and fancy editing that you get on the ones you’ve included in your list.

By: mitchsn

mitchsn — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:04:14 +0000

One of the coolest (but unrealistic) fighting styles I saw in a movie was in Operation Scorpio. The main bad guy used a scorpion style crouching on his belly with 1 leg stuck in the air like a Scorpions tail. Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZzZ0sod-w

By: Erick Wong

Erick Wong — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:56:38 +0000

I can kind of see your point about Ip Man, Scott, but what is the final scene in Equilibrium if not fancy editing? As awesome as that fight is, it looks ridiculous when viewed in slow motion. It is, however, just about the most stylish thing on here. Great list.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:49:57 +0000

Nice selection ! But I miss the infamous “Gore-Fu”-scenes from “Story of Ricky” and the raw Thai-Boxing from “Ong Bak” a bit.

By: Max Tedaldi

Max Tedaldi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:36:58 +0000

hahaha true….except for maybe a flying guillotine hat. If you strolled out in your Sunday best and you grabbed your flying guillotine of death hat instead of your nice tweed cap . . . schiiiiiiiink!!!! insta-death!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:15 +0000

Darth Maul was really cool, but I can’t think of anything that it would be easier to kill yourself with accidentally than a double-bladed lightsaber. Learning the technique would be really tough.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:33:03 +0000

@julina Tatlock I didn’t really enjoy it, you don’t see any fighting, all you get is a bunch of really fast cuts of close ups. Your led to believe there is fighting but you almost never see two full bodies in the same shot. As a viewer, your never given the chance to see the two men fight, only an illusion to it. It’s almost cheating.